Los Angeles Dodgers The 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in 11 innings in Game 7 of the World Series averaged 51 million viewers in the United States, Canada and Japan. Major League Baseball said it was the most watched game since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series between the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves.
Last Saturday the game averaged 27.33 million viewers across the Fox Sports, Fox Deportes and Fox streaming platforms. It was the second most-watched show of the past week, according to Nielsen.
It was also the most-watched Fall Classic game since the 2017 Game 7 between the Dodgers and Houston Astros, averaging 29.07 million. That's a 16% increase from the last Game 7 between the Washington Nationals and Astros (23.19 m).
Game 6 ranked fourth in the Nielsen ratings, Game 4 ranked seventh, Game 5 ranked eighth, and Game 3 ranked 13th.
In Canada, the game averaged 11.6 million viewers on Sportsnet and French-language TVA Sports. It was the most-watched English-language broadcast since the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
In Japan, where the deciding game had a local kick-off time of 9 minutes, the average time after game six last Friday was 12 minutes, where World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed one run in six innings, averaging 13.1 m, the most-watched World Series game on a single network in Japan.
For the entire seven-game series, the average on Fox was 15.71 million, up 2% from last year's Dodgers-Yankees series. For the first time since 2015 and 2016, the World Series viewership increased two years in a row.
Including the Univision telecast of the first game, the overall US average was 16.1 million. The World Series average in Japan was 9.7 meters and in Canada 8.1 meters.
The full MLB postseason on Fox, FS1 and FS2 averaged 8.09 million, up 8% from last year and Fox's best postseason since 2017.
MLB said the World Series was broadcast in 203 countries and territories by 44 media partners in 16 languages.
